Quotes About Consequences

There are great and terrible consequences to any act of violence, and they reverberate beyond the act itself.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

Liberals need to take the advice they routinely give to conservatives: that there are consequences to their divisive rhetoric, and that in their attempts to score political points, they are also inciting violence.

The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

Violence does, in truth, recoil upon the violent, and the schemer falls into the pit which he digs for another.

I think video games and that stuff should be as violent as possible, but age-appropriate. It should be realistic. When it's not realistic you run into kids running around shooting people and not realizing the consequences.

Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.

What kind of world is it if we allow people who are violent and do terrible things off the hook? What does that say about the world we're living in - it's like a world upside down, right?

When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I'd become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.

The only time I've ever felt like I needed to measure my activity and involvement in holding people accountable for being violent on social media is when I think about the things that I might lose for saying something. That's the only time I end up thinking about it.

We don't necessarily ever dig into consequences, right? We have the violent act and then cinematically we tend to walk away and we forget that there's collateral damage.

My violent music helps most kids avoid that street life because it scares them. My fans aren't blind to the consequences.

The measures and acts which show us violently disposed towards the outer world can never stay without a violent reaction on ourselves.

If you're old enough to father a child, then you're old enough to accept financial responsibility for that child. If you don't want your embarrassing, unlawful, and irresponsible behavior going viral, man up and pay up.

Sensationalism only works for so long. Think of something like the Kony 2012 campaign. Its sensationalized, viral language got people all hot and bothered, but at the end of the day, there was so much it got wrong about the situation, and that did more damage to their cause than what they got right.

After all, we paid great prices because of the virtual partitioning of Iraq.

On health care, virtually every political error that could be made was made.

After realizing that we would eventually be able to build molecular machines that could arrange atoms to form virtually any pattern that we wanted, I saw that an awful lot of consequences followed from that.

It's true that virtually all new technologies do trigger what sociologists would call 'moral panics,' that there are a lot of people who are concerned with the possible political and social consequences, and that this has been true throughout the ages.

A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Crimes, like virtues, are their own rewards.

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.